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- Comment on Are Voice Assistants Becoming Family Members? 4 days ago:
No. The answer is only no.
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 5 days ago:
Longhorn… the hype was strong with that one. I don’t even remember what the hype was about, just that Longhorn was supposed to be amazing.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
So when I get home from a 200 mile round trip to the desert on Sunday night, I have roughly 20 miles of range on the Bolt. If I can add 40 miles of range to my car overnight (10 hours of charging at 4mph), that gives me 60 miles of range to do a 20 mile round trip commute. But what if I want to go to the Dodgers game after work? Or if I need to run a bunch of errands after work that I skipped while in the desert? People want their car to be able to go places when they want to go places.
You are talking to me as if you think I didn’t own multiple full EVs as my only car for over 6 years. I lived with a 90mile range Toyota Rav4 EV without DC fast charging and took it on road trips. I also lived with that car without L2 charging for a month. That month was miserable, and I would have never kept that car if I didn’t upgrade to L2.
If you have a second car, then you don’t need a 300 mile range EV and also don’t need L2. If you have a very short commute and don’t do anything after work or on the weekends, then you don’t need L2.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
That depends on what is meant by usually. You seem to think it means “most daily situations,” but I think it means “most house installations.” Yes, a usual day in a person’s life does not require L2. But the usual person does require L2 if they want to use their car like most people prefer to use their car. Once a week I need L2 charging because of all the stuff I do that isn’t commuting. That is 1 day in a 7 day week, so usually I don’t need L2. But I would not be able to have an EV if I didn’t have L2 unless I had a second car (which I don’t have). I think most people fall into this category, so the usual person needs L2 even if they don’t usually need L2.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
Congrats on finding a solution that works for you. I have a short commute (16 miles round trip) and was OK to use L1 charging on a “usually” basis. However, I do more things in my life than just going to work and back. After work I might drive another 90 miles round trip to meet some friends at a brewery. Or I might drive only a couple miles to a buddy’s house and not get home until 11pm, so I now only have 7 hours to charge at L1 instead of 12 hours. And on weekends when I’m maybe driving a couple hours to hike in the desert and come back, I now have 16 hours to charge for work on Monday after driving 210 miles round trip.
Switching from L1 to L2 charging at home made driving an EV go from a daily chore to something I almost never thought about.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
That pissed me off so much back then. I was a big Palm/WebOS fan, having a Treo 600 and 650, then a Pre and a FrankenPre 2 (the Pre 2 didn’t come out on Sprint, only Verizon, so I had to buy the Verizon version and swap out the Sprint radio from my Pre 1 and sideload custom OS modules). I also bought the TouchPad on day 1 and loved the shit out of it.
After HP killed WebOS, I sideloaded Android onto the TouchPad and kept using it for a couple more years.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
My company only buys HP laptops, so I’ve had quite a few. Each one has lasted me longer than the company mandated refresh cycle of 3 years. My last two HP laptops lasted 4 years before I was forced to get new machines. I’m not saying HP is perfect, but anecdotes are only anecdotes.
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 4 weeks ago:
It seems to be mostly a euro thing. BMW stopped using oil dipsticks nearly 2 decades ago.
I was about to make this joke: “That’s just not true. My 2008 BMW had a… holy shit, that car is nearly 2 decades old now.” Then I went to confirm, and that car did NOT have a dipstick. The car came with 5 years of “free” service and never gave me a day of trouble, so I never realized it didn’t have a dipstick. That’s probably a major reason it was removed, since even a DIYer like me who likes to work on things myself never even tried to use the dipstick in 4 years.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 5 weeks ago:
So the researchers are saying there is more load during mid-day but there is also excess capacity due to solar, and that is better than charging at 3am with low load but also low generation from renewables?
- Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere 1 month ago:
A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, “yes, yes I know about that video.” She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.
- Comment on what are your thoughts on Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces ? 1 month ago:
Bidirectional is a “hell no.” One-directional I can get on board with, though I don’t like the idea of my thoughts being available to anyone else. Minimal interface where I can control typing of a keyboard or drive a car or whatever, sure. I don’t want anything that can read ALL of my thoughts, because once that thing is connected to the internet then you know it’ll be monetized and weaponized.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s a weird bit of writing. It’s completely unnecessary information that adds nothing to the sentence. I don’t know if it’s the case, but this is like a micro-aggression where the author felt the need to add more info about the man instead of the woman.
- Comment on I tried another Iron Man-style exoskeleton and now I'm stronger than ever | TechRadar 1 month ago:
Back when I was ready to graduate college and looking for jobs, I was hoping to get a job with an exoskeleton development company. I really wanted to create Aliens loaders and shit like this. I settled for a job launching rockets.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
The original team remade it as a VR game with a new name in roughly 2017. I played a demo of it at PAX and felt like it was 1996 all over again.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 2 months ago:
My favorite story was actually from my buddy’s playthrough. He duped the poison apple from the assassin’s guild quest using the arrow glitch. He then duped it 50 more times and put-pocketed one into everyone’s pockets in a specific town. When they all went to lunch they ate them and died. An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.
- Comment on Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation 2 months ago:
If you just have the seat paired with a normal American toilet, I don’t think it does much. But the seat with the Toto toilet, which has FAR less water in the bowl when doing your business, is very effective when things don’t go off to the side or not fully underwater. It’s always annoyed me how much smellier toilets can be in Europe if you miss the deep but narrow “chute.”
- Comment on Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation 2 months ago:
I have a toilet seat that opens for me when I walk up, lights up the bowl for me, is heated, has an air filter for smells, a bidet and blow dryer, and closes when I leave. Might as well give it a pulse-ox and ECG while I’m at it.
- Comment on StarCitizen skins worth it ? 2 months ago:
Hmm, a 30 minute old account with two posts about the same website that sells skins. Definitely not at all a shill.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 2 months ago:
They have remote drivers that CAN take control in very corner case situations that the software can’t handle. The vast majority of driving is don’t without humans in the loop.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 2 months ago:
Do you think a new player needs to play KCD1 before playing 2? I’ve never played either and am ready to start a new game.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 2 months ago:
Based on my image search engineering, the answer to your question is 2.
Based on my one semester of air breathing propulsion that I took 25 years ago, I’m guessing there is more going on inside the turbine part of the engine that both allows sustainable fuels that current turbofans can’t and also allows compression ratios at lower fan speeds that allows an open fan with fewer blades. Again, I barely passed air breathing propulsion back then and haven’t used ANY of that knowledge since, so I’m mostly talking out of my ass.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
I’m honestly more scared of that. Professional CDL drivers are WAY better at driving than other people. But their trucks are way more dangerous and harder to handle. So putting driverless tech in that is going to be harder and more dangerous.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
I was clearly only talking about cars, not pedestrians. Driverless cars have already shown they are pretty good at avoiding pedestrians and cyclists and scooters and dogs. Even in the case of the pedestrian hit by the Cruise car, that pedestrian was hit by another car first and then thrown into the path of the Cruise. The one case of a dog hit by a car was a dog running out from behind parked cars with no time for a human to stop, let alone the Waymo… and dogs don’t usually wave and signal to drivers on the road.
As far as retrofitted cars, this is about improving the current system not requiring 100% compliance. Do you ban people from driving on the roads if they don’t wave at you on a one-car wide road? No. So you don’t have to ban cars that don’t have this tech. But when more and more cars DO have the tech, then you get improvements over time.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
So the fact that after 50 million miles of driving there have been no pedestrian or cyclist deaths means they are unbelievably unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists? As far as I can tell, the only accidents involving pedestrians or cyclists AT ALL after 50 million miles is when a Waymo struck a plastic crate that careened into another lane where a scooter ran into it. And yet in your mind they are unbelievably unsafe?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
Just fine the one time I rode in one. It had a problem with a moving truck blocking the entire street, where it sat trying to wait to see if the moving truck was just stopped and going to move or if it was parked for good. The Waymo executed a 3 point turn and then had two construction trucks pull into the street the other direction, and they refused to back up. So the Waymo was stuck between not going forward and not going back… it just pulled forward toward the trucks and then reversed toward the moving truck. Back and forth. Then I yelled out the window for the fucking trucks to move out of the fucking road, which they couldn’t drive down anyway. After that it was smooth, even getting into the parking lot.
My buddy said at his office the Waymos have an issue with pulling too far forward at the pick up spots, which makes it impossible for cars to go around them, but humans do dumb shit like that, too.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
“Waymo reports the statistical data it has, which happens to be pretty good.”
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
They’re not saying general road safety is 20x better. They’re comparing an automated car ONLY on surface streets with lights, intersections, pedestrians, dogs, left turns, etc… to a professional truck driver mostly on highway miles.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
That’s when vehicle to vehicle communication will come into play. When we can automate the driving and link the cars’ comm systems together, it becomes a network management problem.
- Comment on Without GPS: EU researchers develop satellite-independent navigation system 2 months ago:
It’s a satellite based nav system. This would be a new development that is presumably ground based.